Coconut Rice is a South Indian recipe. Fried coconut and cashewnuts are added to cooked rice and garnished with ghee and coriander leaves.

Ingredients:

400 gms biryani rice

120 gms coconut

25 gms broken pieces of nuts

6 gms dry chillies

2 gms curry leaves

2.5 gms asafoetida powder

20 gms (minced) coriander leaves

40 ml ghee

25 gms black gram dhal

Salt to taste

Method of making coconut rice:

Cook rice and keep aside. Fry coconut till they turn golden colour on a slow fire.Heat 3 spoon of ghee. Fry the cashew nuts and remove. Now fry the broken pieces of dry chillies, black gram dhal, and curry leaves well. Mix well rice, coconut, nuts, 1 teaspoon of ghee and salt.Serve the Coconut Rice hot by garnishing with coriander leaves.